News tagged with internet boom
CEO calls Zynga his 'crowning achievement'
Before Zynga traded its first share on Friday, nervous investors in the social-gaming company didn't know whether to expect a killing or to be killed.
Dec 23, 2011 |
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Internet stock slips raise fears of new bubble
Quick cooling of hot stock market debuts by Internet darlings such as Groupon has fed fears of another speculative bubble as social networking star Facebook prepares to go public.
Nov 30, 2011 |
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ACE Africa cable to go online late next year: France Telecom
A fibre-optic cable from France to South Africa will go online in the second half of 2012, bringing high-speed Internet links to a host of west African countries, France Telecom said Wednesday.
Nov 09, 2011 |
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New undersea cable lands in Sierra Leone
An undersea telecommunications table landed in Sierra Leone on Monday, part of a 17,000-kilometre fiber optic line that aims to connect countries along the west African coast to Europe.
Oct 10, 2011 |
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Perplexing puzzle: Can Yahoo's luster be restored?
(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. has gone through three different CEOs in five years. Whoever takes the helm now will face the same challenge: Solve one of the Internet's most perplexing puzzles.
Sep 08, 2011 |
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Pre-bubble hype for second dot-com bubble?
What's a dot-com worth? Investors got it badly wrong when they pushed Internet stocks to nose-bleed levels in 2000, only to lose billions when the companies mostly went bust.
Mar 21, 2011 |
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Nortel to sell itself off in pieces
(AP) -- Nortel Networks, once a technology giant, has decided to sell itself off in pieces rather than attempt to emerge from bankruptcy as a restructured company.
Jun 20, 2009 |
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